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It's and today's theme is one of my favorites - witches, ghosts, and the supernatural 🕸️🕷️✨🖤

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2020-06-23

Baba Yaga is the fearsome witch of the Slavic Folklore who lives in a hut with scaly chicken legs & rides in a mortar wielding a pestle. She can either help or hinder those who encounter her & is considered a Triple Goddess representing Life, Death, & Justice.

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2020-06-23

In Japanese folklore & fairytales, yurei or ghosts are often the spirits of women seeking revenge after losing, or being betrayed by, those closest to them. They become trapped in the spirit world as haunting ghosts.

Art: 'Cat Witch of Okazaki', Utagawa Kunisada

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2020-06-23

🌹🌹🌹Timeless Stories to Last and Enchant for a Lifetime 🌹🌹🌹Snow White🌹Sleeping Beauty,🌹Beauty and the Beast🌹Cinderella 🌟🌟🌟🌟

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2020-06-17

The Sea King tricks Agneta to go with him to his kingdom below the sea where she lives with him for eight years. One day she hears church bells above the water and begs to go back home and she never returns to him

John Bauer

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2020-06-16

- The Goddess of Mount Fuji - A Japanese Folktale https://t.co/lguwdfiST5

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2020-06-16

Magical, fairytale art by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.

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Giambattista Basile was a Neapolitan storyteller and one of the most influential promulgators of fairytales in the Baroque era.

His collected tales, some of which were often included dark and erotic themes.

Illustrations: Warwick Goble

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2020-06-16

In Celtic fairy tales, the fairy bride often warns her mortal groom, that as soon as he strikes her with iron, she will be free to return home...

🎨Andrew King & The Fairy Wife - Arthur Rackham

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2020-06-16

Goethe’s German poem “Erlkönig” retells a tragic Danish tale of a father and son riding home, chased by the alluring but vengeful Erl-king whom only the child can see. Franz Schubert later put it to music. Painting by Moritz von Schwind.
https://t.co/USccPs8ALk

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2020-06-09

Tinker Bell is a fairy in J. M. Barrie's 1904 play & 1911 novel Peter & Wendy. At times bad tempered and other times kind, extremes in her personality are due to a fairy's size preventing more than one feeling at a time.
(art by Marc Davis)

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2020-06-10

A Goblin: mischievous, usually unpleasant, vengeful, and greedy creature; their main purpose is to cause trouble to humankind; some possess more fairy-like powers, similar to those of a witch or warlock; others have more demonic abilities, using magic to do harm

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Bogies, goblins and bug-a-boos are often hostile to mortal folk. Northumberland’s Hedley Kow, Durham’s Picktree Brag and the Buggane of the Isle of Man play shape-shifting tricks; they have been known to change gold into silver to taunt their victims

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Bwbach, a Welsh domestic hobgoblin, is a good friend to have in your corner. He'll do household chores in exchange for bowls of cream. Unless you're a member of the clergy--then you're at the mercy of his pranks.

🎨Brian Froud

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2020-06-10

Albertine Randall Wheelan (1863-1954) was a costume designer, a newspaper comic artist and an illustrator. Here her illustrations for “The Shoemaker & the Elves” from The Home University Bookshelf (1927) and a fairy prince.

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John Bauer might have been best known for his literal trollkraft, but he did some mighty fine work with the tomtar (gnomes), too. The Swedish fairytale series has been called ”Bland Tomtar och Troll” since its inauguration in 1907 after all.

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The Faerie Queene appears to Prince Arthur in 'Prince Arthur and the Faerie Queen' by Henry Fuseli, circa 1788, based on an episode in Spenser's epic poem published between 1590 and 1596.

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In the Swedish tale Bortbytingarna(The Changelings), a princess is kidnapped as a baby by a troll who replaces her with his own troll child. Both children grow up unable to fit in. On their wedding day they both escape & go back to their true home.🎨John Bauer

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2020-06-09

The pool of tears was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it. Alice led the way and the whole party swam to the shore ...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Pool of Tears by Iain McCaig

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2020-06-09